Painting

After I finished touching up the paint on the basement stairs last week, I was on a roll so I touched up the white paint on our upstairs stairs (I figured it was about time, since it hadn’t been done since before we moved into this house). Since the white paint on there was not a very close color match to the bright white paint I had, I ended up not only touching up spots, but actually painting every riser and the white boards that run down each sides of the steps, which took hours with all those little angles and corners. But I finally finished, and I think they looked nice when they were done. I’ve touched up all the paint on the main floor of the house – trying to get everything all clean and nice before family comes into town. I don’t know if I’ll be motivated enough to touch up the paint upstairs too, but we’ll see. But at least now that I’ve painted the white on these steps, in the future I will only need to touch up if there are any spots, rather than painting everything again. Whoever thought up white stair risers must not have been thinking, though – they get scuffed so easily. There are even a few new little scuffs since I painted already, and we don’t even wear shoes in the house. Oh well, at least they do look a lot nicer than they did before.
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I also painted the fireplace hearth the other day. The hearth was originally painted a light grey color that didn’t really go well with anything in the room and needed some touching up anyway. So I just used the leftover floor paint from the basement, and I’m pleased with how it turned out (you can’t tell much of a difference in the photos, but this color does look a lot better than the old one).

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